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Yet another 'Dead Man's Hand' building from 4ground - two storeys this time. The ground floor will be the newspaper offices - 'The Enquirer', edited by a certain G. Bowers. Upstairs is the mayor's office - one E.D. Hogg - derived from the nickname of one of my wargaming mates. I need to tweak the colours of the signs a little in Intaglio and re-print them, but otherwise it's finished.

Here are the first citizens of 'Second Chance City'. They're made by 1st Corps for Battleflag. Painted by more or less my usual techniques, with the addition of some extra highlighting on the dark coloured areas, before 'doing the dip'.

I decided to get out my 'desert' terrain cloth, and bung the first buildings for Second Chance City on it, to see how things were starting to shape up. I'm quite pleased with the 'dusty' look. Obviously, it needs more buildings, lots of accessories, and some figures. But it's a good start.

Yesterday's effort - two sets of plastic barrels from Renedra. Before you comment - the 'hoops' looked to me far more like the 'old-fashioned' kind made from wooden 'withies' than the more modern iron bands, which is why they look as they do. I painted one set up as new barrels, the other as ones which have seen some service. …

I have acquired a copy of Great Escape Games's 'Dead Man's Hand' - which, from reading the descriptions put out by Great Escape Games, aims to be a 'cinematic' skirmish game of gunfights set in the 'Old West' as mythologised by Hollywood. I have to say that, at first read through, it looks as though it should succeed in that aim. …